Human Origins 1 - SOL 2013
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jmacsoc11 on May 7, 2012
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SOL WHI.3 WHI.4
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World 1 per 5, World I per 7, World I per 4, MacMichael 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Phoenicians | shipbuilders, seafarers, traders; created first alphabet and each symbol resembles a sound; east shore of Mediterranean Sea |
| Australopithecus | first hominid to walk on two legs |
| Theocracy | Egyptian government; the leader is worshipped as a god |
| Beringia | land bridge from Russia to Alaska; now under water |
| Judaism | the monotheistic religion founded by Abraham and whose followers are called Jews |
| Great Rift Valley | eastern part of Africa where early hominids first appeared - origin of modern man according to science |
| Fertile Crescent | fertile soil; very good farmland; surrounding Tigris and Euphrates |
| Phoenicians | shipbuilder, seafarers, traders; created first alphabet and each symbol resembles a sound; all over the Mediterranean Sea |
| Sumer | Middle Eastern Civilization; oldest civilization; city-states; used cuneiform |
| Cuneiform | first written language; each symbol represented an idea; triangular |
| Sumerian | oldest of Mesopotamia; city-states; used cuneiform; Ur and Uruk were city-states |
| Hammurabi's Code | first written law code created by Hammurabi; "an eye for an eye"; harsh |
| Judaism | the monotheistic religion founded by Abraham and whose followers are called Jews |
| Theocracy | government ruled by top official of religion; god-kings in many early civilizations |
| Mary Leakey | Archeologist- Great Rift Valley- found footprints of two hominids |
| Persians | tolerant; bureaucracy; Cyrus the Great and Darius were the most famous rulers; Royal Road was their trade route and united empire; Zoroastrianism |
| Zoroastrianism | religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster; supreme god Ahura Mazda who represents the good against the evil spirit, identified as Ahriman. |
| Akkad | Sargon was ruler; world's first empire in 2300 B.C.E |
| Assyria | military kingdom in northern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq); the epic of Gilgamesh was found in library at Nineveh |
| Lucy | Female hominid found by Donald Johansen in 1974 in Ethiopia. |
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